The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-15
FLORIDA.

/ JillS StdoDu Will ubOChOhhOCo.
James A. McCreight, of Gainesville, has
| been granted pension for services in the
| Mexican war.
The drought for the past three weeks has
been very damaging to the strawberry
growers of Alachua county,
| d. W D. Boully has purchased half in
terest in the Lakeland Publishing Company,
which publishes the Florida Cracker.
At Carrabelle forty-room hotel is now
projected, to occupy one of the most de-
sirable locations It will have a number of
cottages for families.
A number of citizens of Sanford, who
were frightened away by the first yellow
fever scare, are returning, and work is 60
ing ahead on the new buildings.
The framing of the first three express
I cars ever built at the car shops of the
| Orange Belt Company has been commenced,
and it will not be long until they are ready
for use.
At meeting of the Wilson Battery, of
Jacksonville, Wednesday night, it was de-
| cided not to go to Atlanta as body, owing
to the inability of several of the members
to get off
Elk Congressman Bisbee passed through
Washington Thursday, Ell route home, ac-
companied by his son, who has just gradu-
ated at Harvard, and will study law with
his father
These fourth-class postmasters have been
appointed: John P. Gore, Gore, Levy
county, vice Z. l.. Janney; John N. Chand-
Ter, Limestone, Walton county, vice Angus
d. Morrison.
Pasco county gives a dry" majority of
twenty-one. The County Commissioners
completed the canvass Thursday, throwing
out Richland, San Antonio, Anclote and
Loyce precincts
Maj. A. ST. Clair Abrams spoke Tuesday
night at Leesburg in behalf of Tavares as
the county seat of Lake county. A special
train went from Tavares, carrying 200 peo-
pie from there and vicinity.
The County Commissioners of Madison
county advertise for bids for $75, 900 of
bonds These bonds are to bear 6 per cent.
and have thirty years to run, but liable to
be called in at the option of the Commits
sioners, after five years.
The yacht Margaritta arrived at Cleve-
land this week from the coast with load of
| bananas and sugar-cane. From all the in
| formation received the crop of bananas will
be double that of any previous year on the
islands, so there will be no scarcity of fruit
this year.
A serious difficulty occurred near Kissim-
NEE Sunday night between Wesley Clark
| and William Goodman, in which Clark had
his skull fractured by blow from Good
man with a club. The difficulty originated
about some oxen belonging to Burrell Yates,
the fsther-in-law of Clark. Goodman is
under arrest awaiting the result of Clark's
injuries before the preliminary trial can be
| had.
Mr.. Gold, the agent of the Florida South
| ern railroad at Trabue and Punta Gorda
has decided to make his future home at
| Cleveland, and to that effect has purchased
land there and will begin to build i'll few
| days. Mr.. Gold expects to put over 100
acres in fruits, Strawberries and vegetables
He has secured fine tract of land part of
which lies in the town, and within quar-
ter of a mile of the depot.
! Fort Myers seems to be determined that
if strict quarantine will keep out the
| fever that it will be kept at distance
Capt White, of the steamer Alice Howard,
plying between Cleveland and Fort Myers,
| saws that he had been ordered by health
| officials of the latter place to bring no pas
sengers in his boat that could not produce a
certificate that they came from north of
jacksonville. In other words the town has
quarantined against the whole State, or
| very near it.
| The murder of the stranger whose BODY
was found near Hollis station on the morn
ing of Oct. 9, has been traced to family by
| the name of Adams who live about sixteen
miles from the railroad The head of the
family is now on the grand jury at Milton,
| end it will devolve upon him, partly, to in
| dict his two sons for the murder, one OF
the latter, the eldest, having confessed the
| crime at Milton. The confession embr a ces
no details, the murderer refusing abso lutely
to state the circumstances until he shall be
| given trial.
| A horrible accident occurred on the track
| of the South Florida railroad, just east of
| the water works. at Sanford, Saturday A
| negro was standing on the track watching
an engine on the Jacksonville, Tampa and
Key West track, when switch engine No. %
came along pushing box car before it and
knocked the man down, crushing both legs
| and one arm and fracturing the skull He
was taken to the South Florida railroad h os-
pital, where he died the following day. 1t
was impossible for the engineer to see him
| from the cab
At Quincy perfect confidence prevails as
to the operations of the tobacco syndicate
! Over 5000 acres of land are paid for, and
! the papers are being prepared FOR the trans
| fer of as much more. A competent engineer
has been employed t9 survey the lands, and
| there are few arrivals of prospective set
tiers sent out by Receiver Duval Tobacco
houses are soon to be built. Four promi-
nent dealers from New York left Thursday
admitting that the syndicate, with proper
management, had big thing. They were
greatly pleased with the samples and the
crops. Other parties are purchasing lands
The crop is selling at fine prices
The Plant steamship line employees at
Tampa are taken on board the transfer
steamer Margaret at that city every after
noon at ) o'clock, and the steamer proceeds
five miles down the bay, where she stays
until s o'clock the next morning This is
done by the company to allay the fears of
the men in their employ who are afraid of
the fever, and who do not wish to remain
in Tampa over night. John Bradley, the
agent at Tampa, has signified his willing
ness to do all in his power toward aiding
the men in leaving that clty'if they should
so desire, and if necessary would suspend
all business operations should the scare be-
come so great as to drive the employees
away,
Advice to Mothers.
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